What we do know: hives, also known as urticaria, can appear anywhere on the body, including your face, torso, arms, legs, and even inside your mouth and ears. They may range in size from as tiny as a pencil tip to as large as a dinner plate.
The Sunday (May 29) episode of HBO's Treme is titled Feels Like Rain, which John Hiatt performs at the New Orleans House of Blues during the episode. The episode's story is by Eric Overmyer and Tom Piazza. The teleplay is by Tom Piazza. The director is Roxann Dawson.
I enjoyed the sound of rain on my window and my roof. The next day, I was telling the story to a friend, but I couldn't find a good word to describe the sound of rain. The closest thing I had in my mind was the word impinge, which I had seen in a sentence from James Joyce. I heard the rain impinge upon the earth -- James Joyce. Impinge precisely captures all I want to convey about my experience with the sound of the rain, but it is too formal for a conversation with a friend.